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When we receive your notice we'll check it to make sure it's been completed correctly. We'll telephone you if there is anything else we need.

We'll then send a copy of your notice to the police and the environmental health service.

We can’t refuse a notice unless the police or environmental health object to it. They must do this within three working days of receiving it and they can only object if they think your event could:

lead to crime and disorder

cause a public nuisance

be a threat to public safety

put children at risk of harm

If the police or environmental health serve an objection notice then the licensing sub committee will hold a meeting – called a ‘hearing’ – no later than 24 hours before the event.

At the hearing, the committee will either approve, add conditions or reject the notice.

Before a hearing takes place the police or the environmental service may negotiate with the notice giver to agree changes to the TEN. If all parties agree to the changes then the objection is considered to have been withdrawn and the event can go ahead on the terms of the changed TEN.

Where an objection notice is received for a late TEN the law requires us to issue a counter notice. The law does not permit a hearing or for the notice to be changed in the case of a late TEN. This means that if an objection is received the event will not be authorised.

We can also issue a counter notice if the number of permitted TENs has been exceeded.

What you can do if you haven't heard from us

If after three working days the police or environmental health haven't objected to your notice then the event will then be able to go ahead as planned.

Please contact us if you don't receive a copy of your notice in the post as you'll need to display this at the event.

Timescales for processing an application do not start until all the necessary information has been received in full.